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Twenty Two

Author: Anie
last update publish date: 2026-10-10 22:09:54

She looked down. “It’s not like I’m completely against the idea…but mates are supposed to be perfect for you, right? They’re your other half. Knowing me, I just don’t think my other half is going to be some strong Alpha. I don’t know, maybe I’m overthinking it. The dinner party just got the wheels turning last night and I just realized that I’m probably going to end up disappointing mom and dad.”

My heart ached. I knew that feeling all too well what it felt like to be a disappointment, to never
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  • Born Human: Claimed by an Alpha   Seventy Nine

    After passing through two separate hallways, I’d finally begun to relax. The hallways were almost completely empty, save for the occasional servant or guard. Some of the servants would ask me if I needed something as I passed by, but most of the guards just eyed me warily.Even in casual clothes that hid my claiming bite from sight, most of them seemed to recognize me immediately. I wasn’t sure if that had to do with the red hair or their wolf-y senses picking up on the fact that I was human. And they all knew who the only human in the castle was. Still, none of the guards came to take me back to the room so I counted that as a win. It meant that none of them were mind linking Evander about my presence in the castle.As I rounded another corner of the castle, commotion reached my ears. It sounded like urgent voices and scuffling, and it bounced off the wide, large walls of the stone hallways.I debated turning back for a moment, but curiosity won out.I could tell the noise was com

  • Born Human: Claimed by an Alpha   Seventy Eight

    The next three days passed in the same mindless blur.Evander would leave early in the mornings to handle some sort of kingly business and I’d occupy myself around thebedroom. Sometimes with one of the books already in the room or with a movie on the big, flatscreen in Evander’s suite.Some servant who couldn’t make eye contact with me would bring me breakfast and lunch. .Then, once evening came around, Mary or another castle girl would come to help me get dressed for dinner.I’d dine with Evander for dinner, usually in one of the many lavish dining rooms throughout the castle.After dinner, Evander would return to more of his kingly duties. It wasn’t until late at night that he’d sl*p back into the room with me, cradling me close in b*d. I was usually still awake when he wandered in, so there’d be enough time for touching or making out but that was about as far as it went. I had a feeling he was just too tired from his long days to go much farther.I never thought living in a cast

  • Born Human: Claimed by an Alpha   Seventy Seven

    Wait, the bite!My fingers reached up to feel the spot where Evander had marked me. There was no soreness in my n*eck and it didn’t feel like an open wound. Although my limbs felt a little stiff from sleeping for so long, I managed to drag myself out of b*d and into the lavish bathroom.I turned the light on and gasped when I caught sight of the claiming bite. It was completely healed and it looked nothing like I’d expected.I've seen plenty of claiming bites in my life. They were all visible but most of them weren’t obvious. If you weren’t looking for the scarred indent of someone’s teeth marks, you’d probably miss them. Some of them were barely visible at all, but others, like Luna Grace’s mark, seemed more obvious.She’d told me that was because my dad was an Alpha. The higher a wolf’s position in the pack, the more obvious the bite.It wasn’t intentional, but a more powerful wolf meant more powerful magic seeping into the bite.hadn't thought much of it, but now, I could see the

  • Born Human: Claimed by an Alpha   Seventy Six

    I could hear Evander growl in surprise as I bit into his skin he hadn’t been expecting it. Still, I kept my teeth latched onto his warm skin, digging into the flesh.It was only when he unlatched his teeth from my neck and I could no longer feel his teeth embedded in his skin that Istopped biting him.Surprisingly, I could feel very little pain from the claiming bite. There was a dull ache and I registered something hot and warm running down my shoulder ~ blood? ~ but that was it. It certainly didn’t feel like someone had just sunk theirfangs into me.“What a little wild fox you are,” Evander whispered, his eyes still wide in surprise. There was something else there too amusement. “Biting me like that. I didn’t think you’d really do it.” As if to prove it was really there, Evander reached up to touch the mark I’d left on his skin.Although it was less than a minute old, I could already see the mark fading on his bronze skin. The swollen indent of my teeth was beginning to fade to pu

  • Born Human: Claimed by an Alpha   Seventy Five

    If ’d had a camera or a phone nearby, I would’ve snapped a photo of the look on Evander’s face when I told him I wanted to claim him. He looked like I’d just told him I was secretly an alien or lived on the moon ~ or some other impossible thing. With his jaw hanging open, Evander finally managed to speak. “Claim me?” he said. “Like with a bite?”I knew the idea sounded ridiculous. I wasn’t a wolf. I didn’t have fangs that could magically leave scars. But I did haveteeth and canines. Maybe they weren’t as sharp, but they could still sink into somebody’s neck. They could leave scarstoo. That thought – of me sinking my teeth into the pulse of Evander’s neck ~ sent the blood rushing through my veins.Has the mate bond messed me up so much that biting into somebody’s n*eck like a vampire turns me on? Well, not just anybody Evander. My mate.“T hate to state the obvious here,” Evander said, “But as much as I may call you my little fox, you’re still human. You won’t be able to leave a

  • Born Human: Claimed by an Alpha   Seventy Four

    I was not ignorant about claiming bites. Although I had slept through plenty of werewolf education in my life, the lessonabout claiming marks and bites wasn’t one of them. It was a hard lesson to miss, especially when I was used to seeing theevidence on every mated female wolf I saw.Claiming bites were just that bites that represented the claim of a wolf on another. It was standard practice for male wolves to leave them on their female mates, and in cases of same-s*x mates, the dominant wolf would leave one on the submissive wolf. Even learning about it in school, I’d never liked the practice. It had always felt so one-sided to me. Just another way for male wolves to show their mates off like property, even parade them as such. The female wolf never got to leave her mark on the male wolf, she could only ever wear the mark. At school, the female wolves used to gossip about what it would be like to wear their soul mate’s claiming mark. Tothem, it was an honor. They didn’ once the

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